Bulbophyllum beccarii Rchb. f. 1879
SECTION Beccariana Rchb.f 1879
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Common Name Beccari's Bulbophyllum [Italian Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size 1/2" [1 cm]
Found in Borneo in lowland and peat swamp forests at elevations of sealevel to 600 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing creeping epiphyte that wraps around the trunk of a tree with ovoid, pale yellow green psuedobulbs carrying erect, oblong to broadly elli-ptic, obtuse to acute, thick, leathery, reticulate patterned, sulcate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves held in a cup shape trapping all the falling deitrius from the tree and is invaded by a tangle of roots. The flowers are beautiful, occur in the spring and summer, hanging in pendant, 5 to 17" [12 to 43 cm] long, densely many flowered cluster below the base of the leaf, yet smell like rotting fish or meat. The rosy with violet lines peduncle is enveloped by 5 imbricate, ovate to ovate-elliptic, acute to acuminate, dorsally carinate bracts and has flesh-colored with darker pink to purple flecks, lanceolate, acuminate, floral bracts.
Synonyms Phyllorchis beccarii (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Bulbophyllums and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1982; Orchids of Malaya Holtum 1953; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987; Orchids of Borneo Chan, Shim, Lamb & Wood Vol 3 1997
